Download the Guest Information, House Rules and Liability Waiver. Each adult must sign and return prior to arrival.
Sometimes guests don’t understand why the house rules are enforced. They are there to keep you safe, maintain our business license and comply with insurance requirements. Hopefully you can appreciate the dilemma you create for our business when you don’t comply.
The insurance company requires that each adult sign the license / waiver and that identity to be checked. Florida requires that we know the name of each guest. This also protects against credit card fraud and other nefarious activities; use of vacation rentals for sex and drug trafficking is increasing. Sometimes people will book a reservation for others and not show up themselves; if the unregistered guests break something, collection against an unknown person is difficult. Since we aren’t on-site, its impossible to verify that we have real signatures and the ID helps confirm that the guests are real people who have agreed to the terms. We require a minimum age for our adult guests; this is how we verify that we aren’t hosting a rowdy spring break party.
We have a max occupancy of 15 persons and we charge extra for groups over 8. This includes day guests. Why do we include day guests? Day guests use more resources and create more liability than sleeping guests. The insurance company requires that your guests sign the liability waiver and charge us based on party size. Utilization of the water system, amenities and extra cleaning expenses increase exponentially with party size. Most booking sites will cancel your reservation if they learn you have more than 10-15 people as they consider that a party; if you watch the news, vacation rentals get lots of bad press about parties. Booking sites may cancel our account if we host parties. Large groups create issues with our business license. If you show up early or have unregistered guests, we will notice. Rule breaking is not the best way to start your stress free vacation.
Weather
While you may experience storms, the time trapped inside should be minimal. The rain is rarely continuous so you will get breaks to comb the beach for the shells the storm brings in. The rain should keep things cool and the lower temps may give you more opportunity to be outside than normal. And there is nothing more mesmerizing than a storm on the beach. It’s my favorite time. It’s an experience not to be missed
Be careful with the kayaks. The surge between storms is fun to ride but can pull you out to sea. Stay close to shore
Just because a hurricane is predicted, doesn’t mean your vacation is ruined. If landfall is within 100 miles to the west, you should bug out for big hurricanes for sure. But to the east usually means low tide surge and less severe weather. Watch the weather closely, follow the directions of the Franklin county sheriff and buy the cancel for any reason trip insurance when you book. Roads will likely be closed in the direction of the hurricane, so plan accordingly.
Trip Insurance
We would like to encourage you to get trip insurance. There are one or two guests per year who end up in the hospital, have business conflicts, don’t like the weather, miss their plane, etc. Trip insurance can keep this from being a disaster. After you book, you will receive a solicitation for insurance. You might also have trip insurance benefits with some credit cards.